Australian illustrator James Gulliver Hancock's fantastical drawings of famous figures double as cultural literacy cheatsheets for facts both intimate and mundane: Che Guevara became wheezy when he was angry, Edith Piaf made wreaths as a child, Harry Houdini liked to eat Chop Suey, Marilyn Monroe really liked hot dogs, and Martin Luther King loved Star Trek. In his almanac-style book, Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of 50 Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff,Hancock humanizes everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Coco Chanel.
By: Carey Dunne
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